The division is America is not between the rich and the poor, or the black and the white and all the others. Nor is it a matter of who is educated and who is not, who is beautiful and who not, nor even who is old and who is young except indirectly.
The greatest division in life is between the sick and the well. Even friends gradually drift away from the sick, who sometimes even embrace the rejection, turtling into their shells. We see this in animals as well, and do this in spite of ourselves.
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Nobody likes feeling helpless. The sick do, of course, and so do the well who can't do more than help at the edges, and can't heal. And there can be an uncomfortable feeling of debt (either side). And there's exhaustion.
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